Helena man charged with assault of another man with hammer

A Helena man is facing an assault with a weapon charge after he reportedly attacked another man with a hammer.

Investigators say Johnpaul Lowrie hit a man in the head multiple times with the tool after he’d asked him for a lighter. The victim told investigators Lowrie had come into his bedroom in the home on Standberg Drive late Sunday with the hammer after he’d told him he didn’t have the lighter.